Chapter 149: The Problem of Lifeline

Chang'an, in Ganlu Hall. When Li Yuan received the good news from Hangu Pass, it was already late at night. There was no way. Hangu Pass was almost five hundred miles away from Chang'an. This was still within the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Due to the continuous rations of the army, the messenger had countless horses to replace, and the horses were not stopped all the way, and the horses kept stopping and running wildly.

He handed the battle report of Hangu Pass to Li Yuan as fast as possible. Li Yuan looked at the battle report in front of him in disbelief: "In half an hour, breaking Hangu Pass? How is this possible?"

Pei Ji did not see the battle report and smiled leisurely: "What's impossible? If Zheng army fled without fighting, let alone half an hour, a stick of incense can take down Hangu Pass!"

"Destroy the enemy...kill 644 enemies, injured 1,861 enemies. Capture 2,414 people!" Li Yuan's voice trembled and he said with a dizzy look: "A person who hurts himself and is slightly injured?...How is this possible?"

Pei Ji said solemnly: "These generals are getting more and more courageous, and they falsely report their military achievements... They dare to be so crazy. Do they really think we are fools? It's time to punish them well!"

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "This is not their battle report!"

"Isn't it a war report?"

“That’s??”

"The secret report from the left supervisor's guard!" Li Yuan raised the secret message in his hand and said: "The secret report from the left supervisor's guard is quite credible, and they really don't dare to deceive me!"

When Pei Ji heard the secret report from the left supervisor's guard, he stopped talking. The left supervisor's guard was Li Yuan's ears and eyes. Even Pei Ji never ignored the matter of the left supervisor's guard. He vaguely knew that the left supervisor's guard had a strong ability and a wide range of channels. Although he did not say it was omnipresent, at least Li Yuan would definitely get the news that Li Yuan wanted to hear.

Of course, the Left Supervision Sect does not need to express his merits to Li Yuan for Chen Ying, and the news is naturally reliable. Pei Ji didn't know what to say at this time: "How could Hangu Pass be broken in half an hour?"

Li Yuan did not answer and handed the secret letter in his hand to Pei Ji. Pei Ji opened the secret letter and saw that the doubt on his face became even stronger: "Sulphur, aconite, flame salt, babean, wolf poison, tung oil, charcoal, arsenic, yellow wax, these things are all known to old officials, but what is this asphalt?"

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "I don't know. I think this asphalt is the direct reason why Chen Ying can seize Hangu Pass City!" Speaking of this, Li Yuan rushed to Yu Yanzhang, the general of the Left Supervision Gate, and said, "I can't feel at ease if I find a way to get the things on it. If I don't figure out how Chen Ying broke Hangu Pass in half an hour!"

In fact, Chen Ying tried a little too hard. He broke through the 18 passes of Yanmen Pass in one day, broke through the world's most powerful pass, Yanmen Pass, and then broke through the world's second most powerful pass, Hangu Pass within half an hour. It's okay that Yanmen Pass has been broken a few times in history, but Hangu Pass has only been conquered once since the establishment of the Duke Mu of Qin. And that time was also because Qin could not resist the large number of Qin soldiers and generals, and it was forced to admit defeat for a year and a half.

However, Chen Ying actually broke through Hangu Pass within half an hour and left more than one-third of Wang Renze's command at Hangu Pass. This does not mean that Wang Renze has no desire to resist, but cannot resist at all. An army, even if it is an elite soldier, has absolutely no combat power as long as one-third of the casualties.

Yanmen Pass and Hangu Pass have been conquered by Chen Ying one after another. So is there any city in the world that can stop Chen Ying?

Chen Ying, who was far away in Xin'an County, actually didn't know that he had already scared Li Yuan in such a short time.

Just as Yu Yanzhang was about to order the secret spies of the left supervisor guard to wait for an opportunity to steal Chen Ying's secret weapon to break through Hangu Pass City, Pei Ji suddenly said, "Your Majesty, why not directly issue an order to General Chen to present this secret weapon to Your Majesty? If there is such a powerful weapon to conquer the country, what city in the world will not be defeated?"

Li Yuan was stunned and immediately understood Pei Ji's intention. Pei Ji asked Li Yuan to directly order Chen Ying. In fact, it was not a temptation. As long as Chen Ying was willing to hand over this powerful weapon to Li Yuan, this means that Chen Ying had no unfavorable intentions. At the same time, any city in front of Li Yuan will no longer be a difficult problem to overcome.

However, if Chen Ying disagrees, or talks about other things, and perhaps uses other reasons to make excuses, this means that Chen Ying is very problematic.

Li Yuan smiled and said, "Pei Jian is really an unparalleled wise man. OK, so I will use Pei Jian... to draft an order!"

"Your Majesty, it's actually better not to give this imperial edict!" Pei Ji smiled and said, "Your Majesty only needs to send one person. The old minister is sure that Chen Ying will present such a sharp weapon with both hands!"

"Oh!" Li Yuan was stunned when he heard this, and raised his eyebrows: "Are you talking about Sanniang?"

"That's right!" Pei Ji nodded and said, "Chai Shaoxinshen, Hou Mo Chen and Longyou Li clan are both clans of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty. However, Yemen is a match. Besides, the power of Hou Mo Chen clan in Lingnan is quite large!"

Li Yuan nodded.

Hou Mo Chenying was the chief supervisor of Guizhou in the Sui Dynasty and also in charge of the military of the seventeen states. Although the land of the Ling area is vast and sparsely populated, it is undeniable that the Hou Mo Chen family was a local overlord. Hundreds of large and small Yao people in the seventeen states, Yue people and the vassal Miao, all of whom were the Hou Mo Chen family. Marrying with the Hou Mo Chen family can be said to be a win-win situation.

If Li Yuan looked down on Chen Ying in the past, it was because Chen Ying was born in a humble family. If he married the dignified imperial daughter to a deceased person, he would probably be a laughing stock in the world.

But now, who dares to say that Chen Ying has a low background?

Hou Mo Chen family has been a general in many generations, with many generals. Especially the four brothers of Hou Mo Chen Chong, two sons, including the current grandson Hou Mo Chenying and Hou Mo Chenqian. Hou Mo Chenqian also shone brightly in the battle of Pingchen. When he was old, Hou Mo Chenqian was also a rare tiger general. Even if the tiger was old, who dared to underestimate him?

More importantly, the Houmo Chen family now has a Chen Ying. Chen Ying is far inferior to his ancestor Hou Mo Chen Chong, but his wisdom and military training skills are much stronger than Hou Mo Chen Chong.

With Chen Ying as his son-in-law and the son-in-law, he would definitely not be wronged by Princess Pingyang, and naturally it was a rare good thing for Li Yuan. After all, one more member of the Tang Dynasty could block one general, and it could also make the Tang Dynasty break the territory and make it smoother.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan said to the attendant Chen Qi beside him: "Send someone to pass on my oral orders to Xuan Pingyang Princess!"

"Sister obey your order!"

...

Chen Ying sent everywhere to seize the fifteen cities under Henan, and Chen Ying had already ordered that all army and generals were not allowed to cross the boundary. Although Li Shimin was relatively generous, this piece of fat meat in Luoyang belonged to Li Shimin. If he robbed Li Shimin's meat to eat, the result would definitely not be good.

Chen Ying also knew that after the elimination of Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, Li Tang would be invincible in the Central Plains. At the same time, internal struggles would become more intense. The government and opposition parties fought against each other and the cliques were fighting fiercely. Without sufficient interests, it would be difficult to tie others up on the ship. Li Jiancheng's subordinates were not unavailable. If it were not for sufficient interests, it would be difficult for those people to follow Li Jiancheng to devote themselves to their hearts.

Chen Ying founded a steel factory, built a carriage, and various new things. It seemed that the profit was very generous, but there was no way to divide it. Although the cake was large in plate, once it was divided, there was no much profit.

Chen Ying decided to take advantage of the opportunity to appease Henan, do his best to develop the Henan economy, and make Chen Ying the wallet of Li Jiancheng. As long as he has money and interests can be distributed, Li Jiancheng has a greater chance of winning.

Now only Shan Xiongxin wearing a golden tiger-patterned mask is left beside Chen Ying. After the New Year's Day, farmers have already started preparing for spring plowing. If you should repair the plow, you should add a hoe.

Chen Ying took Shan Xiongxin to walk through the fields in Xin'an County, and found that some worn-out people were squatting on the fields, frowning.

Chen Ying got off the horse and walked to the ridges. He saw the farmers squatting on the fields looking at the thin layer of snowy farmland on the ground with sad faces.

Chen Ying asked an old farmer: "Dare you ask the old man, it's so cold that he's worried about squatting in the field. What should I do if it's frozen?"

The old farmer's face was as wrinkled as an old tree, and his face was filled with a sad look: "If it is frozen, it will die..."

The old farmer's tone was filled with endless sadness and helplessness.

Chen Ying waved to Shan Xiongxin, and Shan Xiongxin took out a large handful of copper coins from the chain of the war horse. Of course, gold and silver items can be more valuable, but Chen Ying knew that if he gave the gold to an ordinary old farmer, this was not helping him, but harming him. Maybe someone would take risks at night and kill him. Chen Ying said: "Old man, there is no hurdle in this world that cannot be overcome. It doesn't matter if the seeds and grain have been eaten. There is still some money. Go back and buy some seeds, and wait for the spring snow to melt and prepare for spring!"

"There are still some seeds and grains, but the fields are gone, what's the use of asking for seeds and grains!" The old farmer looked at the fields in front of him, knelt on the snow all his life, howling and crying: "I'm useless, I'm embarrassed. I haven't saved these dozens of acres of ancestral fields, and I'm ashamed of my ancestors..."

Chen Ying suddenly felt that the problem was serious. It seemed that there were quite a lot of people like this old farmer. Looking around, there were people in the fields, almost all the old, small, light or weak squatting in the fields.

Chen Ying patted the old farmer on the shoulder and comforted him: "Old man, tell me, what's going on?"

The old farmer looked at Chen Ying in tears: "This gentleman, aren't you from Xin'an?"

"no……"

"That……"

"I came from Chang'an!"

"Oh!" The old farmer was not prepared when he heard that Chen Ying was not from Xin'an, so he choked and touched his tears: "Tian Wu Lai, I can't survive."
Chapter completed!